Data Journeys in the Sciences

by Leonelli, Sabina Tempini, Niccolò

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Title Statements

Full title :Data Journeys in the Sciences / edited by Sabina Leonelli, Niccolò Tempini.

Summary

This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and social studies of science to achieve two goals: tracking the travel of data across different spaces, times and domains of research practice; and documenting how such journeys affect the use of data as evidence and the knowledge being produced. The volume captures the opportunities, challenges and concerns involved in making data move from the sites in which they are originally produced to sites where they can be integrated with other data, analysed and re-used for a variety of purposes. The in-depth study of data journeys provides the necessary ground to examine disciplinary, geographical and historical differences and similarities in data management, processing and interpretation, thus identifying the key conditions of possibility for the widespread data sharing associated with Big and Open Data. The chapters are ordered in sections that broadly correspond to different stages of the journeys of data, from their generation to the legitimisation of their use for specific purposes. Additionally, the preface to the volume provides a variety of alternative "roadmaps" aimed to serve the different interests and entry points of readers; and the introduction provides a substantive overview of what data journeys can teach about the methods and epistemology of research.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Imprint: Springer, Springer International Publishing
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (XVII, 412 p. 39 illus., 25 illus. in color. :) : online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030371777, 3030371778, 9783030371760, 303037176X
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-37177-7.
oclc:on1203561472
LC Classification:B67
Dewey Decimal:501

Preface: A Roadmap for Readers -- Chapter 1. Learning from Data Journeys (Sabina Leonelli) -- Part I: Origins: Data Collection, Preparation and Reporting -- Chapter 2. Material Origins of a Data Journey in Ocean Science: How Sampling and Scaffolding Shape Data Practices (G Halfmann) -- Chapter 3. What Data Get to Travel in High Energy Physics? The Construction of Data at the Large Hadron Collider (K Karaca) -- Chapter 4. Tracing Data Journeys Through Medical Case Reports: Conceptualizing Case Reports Not as "Anecdotes" but Productive Epistemic Constructs, or Why Zebras Can Be Useful (R Ankeny) -- Part II: Clustering: Data Ordering and Visualization -- Chapter 5. From Dirty Data to Tidy Facts: Clustering Practices in Plant Phenomics and Business Cycle Analysis (M Boumans and S Leonelli) -- Chapter 6. The Datum in Context: Measuring Frameworks, Data Series and the Journeys of Individual Datums (M Morgan) -- Chapter 7. Data Journeys Beyond Databases in Systems Biology: Cytoscape and NDEx (W Bechtel) -- Chapter 8. A Data Journey through Dataset-Centric Population Genomics (J Griesemer) -- Part III: Sharing: Data access, Dissemination and Quality Assessment -- Chapter 9. Sharing Data, …

Subjects

Histoire History history (discipline) History of Science Philosophie et sciences Philosophy and science Philosophy of science Science, Humanities and Social Sciences…